List of Iranian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Iranian Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Iranian filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, shortlisted, nominated or have won an Academy Award.

Best Supporting Actress

Actress in a Supporting Role
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2003 Shohreh Aghdashloo House of Sand and Fog Nominated First Iranian to be nominated for an acting award.

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Original Screenplay
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2012 Asghar Farhadi A Separation Nominated First time that a screenplay entirely written in an Asian language (Persian) is nominated for Original Screenplay.

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year Name Film Adapted From Status Milestone / Notes
1998 Hossein Amini The Wings of the Dove The Wings of the Dove by Henry James Nominated First Asian nominated in this category.
2020/21 Ramin Bahrani The White Tiger The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Nominated

Best Cinematography

Cinematography
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1997 Darius Khondji Evita Nominated
2022 Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Nominated

Best Costume Design

Costume Design
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1970 Ray Aghayan Gaily, Gaily Nominated First Iranian to nominate for an Academy Award.
1973 Lady Sings the Blues Nominated First Iranian to nominate for an Academy Award twice.
1976 Funny Lady Nominated First Iranian to nominate for an Academy Award thrice.

Best Sound Editing

Sound Editing
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2007 Kami Asgar Apocalypto Nominated First and only Middle Eastern person nominated for Sound Editing.

Best Visual Effects

Visual Effects
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
1997 Habib Zargarpour Twister Nominated Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier and Henry LaBounta.
2001 The Perfect Storm Nominated Nominated with Stefan Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti.

Best Animated Feature

Animated Feature
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2008 Marjane Satrapi Persepolis Nominated Shared nomination with Vincent Paronnaud

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Iranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Best International Feature Film
Year Film Director Status Milestone / Notes
1999 Children of Heaven
(بچه های آسمان) 		Majid Majidi Nominated
2012 A Separation
(جدایی نادر از سیمین) 		Asghar Farhadi Won First Iranian movie to win an Oscar.
2017 The Salesman
(فروشنده) 		Won

Best Documentary Short Subject

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2019 Rayka Zehtabchi Period. End of Sentence. Won Iranian-American
Shared with Melissa Berton.

Best Short Film Live Action

Live Action Short Film
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2000 Mehdi Norowzian Killing Joe Nominated Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with producer, Steve Wax
2015 Talkhon Hamzavi Parvaneh Nominated Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with producer, Stefan Eichenberger
2022 Cyrus Neshvad The Red Suitcase Nominated

Best Short Film Animated

Animated Short Film
Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes
2009 Emud Mokhberi Oktapodi Nominated Nominated as Director; Shares nomination with co-director Thierry Marchand,
2023 Yegane Moghaddam Our Uniform Nominated

Nominations and Winners

No. of wins No. of nominations
3 22

See also

References